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diff --git a/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/openstack.rst b/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/openstack.rst index b23b4b7c..f523c142 100644 --- a/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/openstack.rst +++ b/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/openstack.rst @@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ Discovery To determine whether a platform looks like it may be OpenStack, cloud-init checks the following environment attributes as a potential OpenStack platform: - * Maybe OpenStack if + * Maybe OpenStack if: * **non-x86 cpu architecture**: because DMI data is buggy on some arches - * Is OpenStack **if x86 architecture and ANY** of the following + * Is OpenStack **if x86 architecture and ANY** of the following: * **/proc/1/environ**: Nova-lxd contains *product_name=OpenStack Nova* * **DMI product_name**: Either *Openstack Nova* or *OpenStack Compute* @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ The settings that may be configured are: * **metadata_urls**: This list of urls will be searched for an OpenStack metadata service. The first entry that successfully returns a 200 response - for <url>/openstack will be selected. (default: ['http://169.254.169.254']). + for <url>/openstack will be selected. (default: ['http://169.254.169.254']) * **max_wait**: the maximum amount of clock time in seconds that should be spent searching metadata_urls. A value less than zero will result in only one request being made, to the first in the list. (default: -1) @@ -82,4 +82,12 @@ For more general information about how cloud-init handles vendor data, including how it can be disabled by users on instances, see :doc:`/topics/vendordata`. -.. vi: textwidth=78 +OpenStack can also be configured to provide 'dynamic vendordata' +which is provided by the DynamicJSON provider and appears under a +different metadata path, /vendor_data2.json. + +Cloud-init will look for a ``cloud-init`` at the vendor_data2 path; if found, +settings are applied after (and, hence, overriding) the settings from static +vendor data. Both sets of vendor data can be overridden by user data. + +.. vi: textwidth=79 |